NCRI: 78 Executions Documented in One Month, Including 6 Women, 9 Baluch Citizens

The National Council of Resistance of Iran documented 78 executions across 24 prisons between Aug 23 and Sep 22, 2026 (the Iranian month of Shahrivar 1405), including 6 women and 9 Baluch citizens — the heaviest tolls at Isfahan's Dastgerd Prison (15) and Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison (10). Named cases include Mostafa Karimzadeh (Isfahan, Sep 22) and Eskandar Heydarzadeh (Tabriz, Sep 14). NCRI said the true toll is likely higher, echoing Human Rights Watch's Sep 10 finding that at least 59 men were arbitrarily executed on national-security charges over five months following unfair trials, several of them teenagers, five hanged publicly.